We’ve grown up in the building and the system and the tradition, so we believe that this is the Church. The truth is Jesus was teaching something very different from what the word “church” means to us today. He is commanding them not to forget Him to live together and to eat and to remember. He is not telling them to establish a weekly worship service or to create a rigid liturgy or to institute a sacrament. He then asks them to remember him when they break bread together in the future. ![]() At their final meal before His death, Jesus offers bread and wine as a symbol of his coming sacrifice. ![]() Jesus tells the disciples to remember Him. It still is not where they gather, but as they gather. ![]() The idea of them needing to visit a specific place to have proximity to God was now ludicrous. ![]() They are the very “ Body of Christ” on earth, they are the “temple of the Holy Spirit”-living, breathing sanctuaries. In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes to tell Christians in that city that God’s presence is not just above and around them but within them. The Apostle Paul tells us we are the Temple.
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